Shade-roller bracket.



A. H. HOBNISCH.

SHADE ROLLER BRACKET.

APPLIUATION FILED MAR. 14, 1914.

gmGAQ. Patented Deo. 8,71914.

`able therefore to provide the AUGUST H. HOENISCH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHADE-ROLLER BRACKET.

Application filed March 14,

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, AUGUST H. Hom:- iscir, a citizen of the United States, resid.- ing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a Shade-Roller Bracket, of which the following is a full and complete specification.

My invention is an improvement in brackets for window curtain iixturcs, and relates more especially to that particular cass of brackets which are employed for supporting the ordinary spring-roller for curtain-shades.

The conventional form of shade-roller bracket is provided with a base or attaching-flange having holes through which the attaching nails or screws are driven into the window-casing, and inasmuch as the body of the bracket projects outward from the base or flange considerable difficulty is experienced in driviiJ the attaching means, especially when nails are employed; such ditiiculty being enhanced by the location, for the insufficient light on the bracket and the glare from the window interfere materially with the operation of driving. It is preferbracket with integral attaching means, as a screw, and to have said screw either an integral part of the bracket or firmly and securely attached thereto in such manner as to withstand the operation of driving as well as form a proper supporting-bracket for the roller and curtain-shade.

rThe primary object of my invention, therefore, is to provide a shade-roller bracket which can be readily and conveniently secured in its proper place on the window' casing and without the employment of extraneous attaching means.

A further object of my present invention is to provide a shade-roller bracket which can be cheaply manufactured from sheetmetal and supplied with an ordinary woodscrew rigidly connected thereto, thus producing a single article of this character in a single piece and at a minimum price.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter appear. and what I claim as new in the particular construction of the bracket is more specifically set forth in the appended claim.

1n form a part a side view of panying drawings, Which .is specification: Figure 1 is a shade-roller bracket con- Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented lDec. 8, 1914. 1914. Serial No. 824,628.

structed in accordance with my present invention. Fig. 2 is a view illustrating the application of the bracket in supporting one end of a curtain-shade roller. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing its application in supporting the other end of the roller. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view, on the line 1--i of Fig. 1. Fig. is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1. Fig. G is a detail view of the bracket-plate, showing the means employed for attaching the screw thereto. Fig. 7 is a detail view of the attaching-screw which is connected to the bracket-plate. Fig. 8 is a 'detail view of the washer or disk employed in connecting the bracket-plate and screw.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In carrying out my invention the bracket is preferably formed from sheet-metal or a plate of suitable f hickness stamped or otherwise shaped to provide a circular member or shank 10, and a companion supporting-member 11, the latter having an openend receiving slc 12, hereinafter particularly described, and in the present instance this bracket-plate is provided with an attaching-screw 13, firmly and securely connected thereto so as to constitute a rigid part thereof.

For the purpose of rigidly connecting the bracket-plate and screw together the head and shoulder portion of the latter is provided with a transverse slot 13 of a suitable depth to receive a ton ue 14, formed at the inner end of the circu ar member or shank 10 of the bracket-plate, and in connection with the tongue I may and preferably do employ a washer or disk 15, which in the present instance serves to more intimately bind the several parts of the bracket together in one piece. This metal disk is provided centrally with a circular opening 15a, through which the body portion of the screw is passed so that the head thereof may bear against said disk. and also with slots 15b, 15", at opposite sides of the opening and communicating therewith, to receive the tongue` 14 when the parts are assembled.

1t ,will ,be noted that the bracket-plate is provided. at the` inner end of the tongue 14 with foppositefshoulders 16, 16, which bear .againstfithe disk beyond the ends of the tongue-receiving slots 15b. and in the present instance'the metal disk is slightly dished, and the'aoresaid shoulders correspondingly l upsetting or riveting said corners against the screw and disk. However, in some in- 1, other with a'slot, as heretofore.

stances the parts when assembled as hereinbefore described may be-secured together by electric welding; and in either case the screw shade-roller bracketcombining bracket and attachingmeans, the metal disk not only serving to bind the vother parts butalso formsA a binding-shoulder adapted to bear against the window-casing'when the screw is driven home.

The slot 12 the bracket-plate is of a peculiar shape to receive either' the oblong gudgeon 17 lat one end of the shade-roller Aor the round gudgeon 1S at the other end,

whereby the saine form-o-bracket may be stead' of employing one {with a hole 'and an- For this purposeA said slot is shaped tey-p'rovide-'an entrance opening l2`a,. disposed.at an angle of v degrees tothe axis of the attaching;|

screw, and extendingrearwardly from the forward upper end of the supporting inember 11, said opening communicating with. a

downwardly extending passage 12b, disposed at right angles thereto'and connecting at its lower end with a rectangular recess 12 in 1 the front wall of 'said passage, and in the present instance the lower; end ofthe .passage 12b is formed with a curved bottom 12d, forming a seat for theround gudgeonv or pin 18 when the bracket is used to support this end of the shade-roller. The width of the ,entrance opening and communicating passage is such that the round-gudgeon'may' e passed through the same to engage the seat 12d; and in like manner the oblong gudgeon 17 may be passed through the entrance opening and passage to engage in the recess 12c of a companion bracket; or either gudgeon may be first placed directly in en-y gagement with its seat by moving the shaderoller laterally into such engagement and theother gudgeon thenslid into the companion bracket in the manner hereinbefore described. However, it may be more convenient to place both gudgeons of the shaderoller in'en'gagement with their respective From the foregoing description :in connection with the accompanying Vdrawings it y becomes practically an integral part of the bracket-plate so asto provide a one-piece Y* jt lat-i-I-*-providel a shade-roller bracketjthatcanbe manufactured very cheaply, inasmuch as the bracket-plate, with its gudgeon-receiving slot 12 and. connecting-tongue 14, may be easily stamped fromv sheet metal and the disk and screw connect-- edthereto at very little additional cost.

The completed bracket is in one piece and brackets in `.which one is providedfwith ahole andtheother a slot.

Having thus described ,y my invention, I claim:v i

having a gudgeon-receiving slot at its for ward end anda tongue at its rear end,y an attaching-screw having a slot in its head and shoulder in which the aforesaid tongue lits, and a disk having an opening receiving the screw and tongue, said parts being secured together; the gudgeon-receiving slot at the forward end of the plate having an entrance opening leading downwardly and rearwardly, a communicating passage extending fromthe inner end of the entrance opening at anangle Vthereto andcurved at its lower end to forma seat, and a rectangular recess at'one'side of the. lower end of the aforesaid passage, substantially as shown and described. l AUGUST H. IHOEN'ISCH. VVitnesses': v 1 v P. H. SHAW, SPENCER G.. NAUMAN.

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